You could say the Dems achieved a tactical victory by eating a lot of floor time during a Republican trifecta but botched the withdrawal from the fight, but it's not clear to me that there would be any acceptable withdrawal, particularly while you're winning the media argument.

I don't think those pushing for a fight here on Bsky sketched this out in a war-fighting sense either, since it was obvious from early on that the Dems couldn't win any of the concessions preferred on here, which were going to be much larger politically than healthcare subsidies.

Insofar as there’s an “American way of war,” air power is the absolute core of it.

It’s been the dream of defense planners for a decade to overcome congressional resistance and use Korean yards to build US frigates, but I don’t have faith anything like that could come from this.

It’s not entirely crazy to field a heavier ship that can carry more hypersonics…but we have so many bigger priorities right now and a totally atrophied industrial base. This is like a 2045 project, not a 2025 project.

Shipbuilding is so fucked right now that there’s no way we can move this beyond the design process in less than 5 years. It’ll be easy to get $100 million to study requirements or whatever for the big ship. The more interesting budget fight will be over the small/autonomous platforms.

SWOs couldn’t handle the sub fleet being the priority and is now putting forward a 20,000 ton missile cruiser when the Navy can’t even deliver Constellation.

there are a lot of trust fund babies and children of US elites in DC. I’d say the US elite is actually more likely to recycle children into government than the Chinese one.

I have serious questions about whether his team did any vetting or pre-campaign wargaming for this stuff. I suspect they may have not even known about it!

These podcasts spend too much time together, I’d get sick of anyone if I had to do jokes with them every day in and out.

Right now even “non-woke” models read as woke to right wing chides because they’re so far into their own hyper tuned insanity they can’t accept any contradiction of their beliefs.

The FT ids by and for liberal technocrats and I love that about them.

Oh I see this was in the Yoon era rather than today.

Is it possible for South Korea to have a popular government?

Yeah if you're not front-running you probably have to run Taishin or Vodka because they're the only ones who could get enough accel. If you can produce Oguris like that one regularly the next cup is going to be better because we're back to mediums and you can run Oguri + Nice Nature debuffers.

There's some bad luck, but I think you also made it to Group A and have to face optimized front-runners that require stacking an absurd number of acceleration skills to overcome for this cup because they don't have to invest at all in stamina recovery and can put those points to speed skills.

Sorry man, it sucks to have an ace let you down.